Top 91 Gloria D. Gonsalves Quotes
#1. The mind is your guard, the heart is your maid and the soul is your territory. Nobody else but you should have the control of these.
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#2. Spend time to love yourself and the aging process involved. Your growth vintage is priceless.
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#3. My accent is of African ancestry and so is my origin and I have no intention to change any of it. Therefore nobody should expect me to fraudulently behave as if I was anything else.
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#4. What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?
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#5. I had rather be a mind provocateur than a celebrity because thoughts dwell longer in a person than a designer dress borrowed for one night.
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#6. I was taught how to walk but I did not master the cheating steps of others.
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#7. We should all celebrate the magnitude of diverse and unique souls that live in our world today, for it is an essence that makes our lives colourful every single
day.
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#9. No matter what justification you have for your feelings, you cannot wish harmful things on others.
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#13. What might be considered loyalty in one
society might not necessarily be the same for another.
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#14. Dear teachers, please make reading and writing fun. Reading and writing shouldn't be a punishment while in school. I ask you to create and teach two electives: "Reading for Pleasure" and "Writing for Pleasure".
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#17. The past has taught me that any heart has immeasurable capacity to love, no matter how many times it has been broken. Now I choose to love as hard as I can and without reservations.
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#22. Writing is a gift I am grateful for. So I use it, give it, but not always I get it right. In not getting it right, I will be content to know that I failed right by not wasting that gift.
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#23. In the noise and freak-outs, let's strive to see the deafened sound of light.
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#24. Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes upon
the swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.
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#25. The demons you need to get rid of are inside. But they seem out there because you left the window open.
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#26. A foolish mind would not raise an eyebrow when things are done diff erently in a foreign culture. An educated mind would try to understand the meaning of it all.
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#28. If I believe in humanity and all that encompasses it including being kind and respectful of others, then I hereby declare that my love extends to gay, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders.
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#29. One should use well a mouth for someone will remember your words and the manner they were spoken. One should pose well in a body for someone will remember your image and how you carried it. One should serve well for someone will recall the kindness and spread it among humanity.
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#30. Those trying moments teach us to desire greatness in ourselves and wider humanity.
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#31. My lips swelled with red freshness, my chest heaved proudly with a pair of pointed African drums, my face tempted with its sweetness like Kilimanjaro waters and my height spoke a language only a Maasai warrior knew.
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#32. Then I saw his kind eyes, a comfort I desired. Then I saw his height, a knight I needed by my side. Then I saw his body, a man I surrendered to.
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#33. Creativity occurs in introverted space. Instead of considering those who seek solitude as anti-social, weird and non-team players, let's learn to respect this gift which allows us to have a self worthy of sharing.
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#34. Maturity and wisdom become us, when we appreciate people from our past.
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#35. Being able to experience and live the differences with sound judgement offers a chance to opt for what is right for one.
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#36. My culture may be different from yours, but that should not be a reason for you to sneer at it. If a bunch of us appreciate it, then there must be something special to be learned by everyone, even you a stranger.
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#37. To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.
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#38. This is the sinking woman
whose soul touched the ocean and
caused it to storm kisses.
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#39. Take, this day, my hand
and promise to absolve
what my forefathers and I did
to you and your kin.
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#40. She refuses to support the slogan - Men are equal to women - if this translates to her femininity being faded out or confused by trying to please a selfish idea of anyone wanting a woman to be both herself and a man.
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#41. Life at home is at a pace which allows you to appreciate what it has to offer. Simultaneously you get a chance to reflect on what you wish from it. Our development also goes at the same pace, which is not something that everyone appreciates.
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#42. There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.
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#43. If you are looking for a perfect woman, she does not reside here, you will find only me.
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#44. Love me until Venus gasps with envy.
Love me again until Eros swears celibacy.
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#45. Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared of how it might sound or appear to the other.
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#46. You are not the problem but fashion designers, who are limiting themselves creatively.
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#48. I see no difference between a genius and a loony, they both speak a language that I find strange.
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#49. You can choose to create a drama and get what you acted for or remain silent and get what you planned for.
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#50. Readers should be open-minded to read anything they fancy regardless of the source. That way we can rid off the writing stereotyped by race or gender.
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#52. Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.
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#55. You may not possess a body that everyone want to admire.
You may not possess wealth that everyone want to have.
However you should possess a character that will make you worthy to love.
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#56. In my book, everything considered immoral, foolish and unhealthy is fine in moderate measurements.
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#57. I am also open minded to embrace strange notions and respect its bearers without harsh judgement. Exposure has made me feel confident and wiser to choose what feels right for me, in order to be the best human being for myself and others.
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#58. I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.
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#60. Behold your nakedness as a precious stone, which not every miner is able to dig it out.
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#61. Gentlemen, like a bee do not give up to work that nectar in the soul of your queen until she has enough sweetness to be shared by both of you.
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#62. The heaviest heart eventually heals to heavenly heights. Never give up.
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#64. Fear confines us to lesser choices that we can't grow. Hope liberates us to greater heights that we can grow.
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#65. Don't break a neck looking up for God. Try looking down at inspiring human deeds.
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#66. My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.
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#67. Then I learnt of "white Christmas", which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.
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#68. No mirror can highlight the beauty within you than your own eyes. No eyes can fairly judge your appearance than your own pride.
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#69. I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.
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#70. Sometimes it is not about the colour of your skin but the character you portray. Strive to be unique in your doings and only then you might have the right to blame it on racism. Consequently how you choose to react towards a racist experience should do yourself and your race a proud favour.
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#71. Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
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#72. Nobody is qualified enough to give advise on intimate relationships other than those sleeping with it.
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#73. Sometimes this sentence "I am praying for you" can be so dishonest and lowering that there are occasions I have looked up in heaven and asked God, "please don't accept that prayer".
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#75. Give yourself a break from any holy book; and
start looking at others as you want to be looked at.
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#76. I love your inside,
complimenting your outside,
a wonderful fusion,
that makes you so irresistible.
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#78. Poetry is not for poets, poetry lovers or perceived poetic persons only.
Poetry is in yourself, others and everything of nature and man-made.
Poetry may not be a solution, yet it can reveal or ease challenges faced.
Poetry is capable of affecting any heart.
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#79. Blessings will never cease to shower upon those who mind their own life with humility of accepting mistakes versus those who find joy in judging others to divert attention from their miserable lives.
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#80. A mother has two hands but performs jobs of many arms. You will never be able to do the impossible until you realise what your mother did.
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#81. There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.
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#82. Many years ago, I left my home country very narrow minded. Today I return with an educated mind, able to understand why my culture is as it is and still be very proud of it.
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#84. As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
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#85. The moans made with pleasure during love making become much louder with displeasure during separation.
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#87. The day I will stop being shocked by human behaviour, is the day I will know that the last bit of my heart purity is lost forever.
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#88. The joy of comradeship in this foreign land has been killed by silence and overprotection of personal space. I miss the chaos around me for it makes me realise that I am amidst life and alive.
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#89. I aspire to be an inspirer, not a mentor. As such it would be fulfilling to know that someone read what I wrote and tailored it creatively to serve positively their divine purpose.
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#90. Praise your God in a silent and humbly manner instead of rubbing his back with loud praises while silently committing horrendous acts.
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